I ran a Google search but nothing too clear showed up. I'm looking for a Windows 7 compatible version of pdflatex.exe to help me in typesetting some math I have in an Illustrator project.
I heard about it through this tutorial: http://www.justskins.com/forums/math-equation-editing-in-86877.html
@GonzaloMedina What was your memoir question? (Mind you, I'm not an expert.)
@GonzaloMedina Well I answered the question asked. :) But you may be right. The linked thread doesn't seem to mention pdftex at all. But I don't know how MathType works.
@AlanMunn Ah, yes. Yesterday there was a question about subcaptions, and when I tried to test some example code from the documentation, I obtained some errors, so maybe I wasn't loading some required package(s)? Let me look for the concrete example.
I'm constantly amazed at what's on the web. In my backgammon investigations I discovered this: ustream.tv/recorded/21184037 @PauloCereda, now you can do some unsupervised learning :)
:3978323 It's the example in pages 206-207 of the manual: \documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\subbottom[Subfigure 1]{\fbox{SUBFIGURE ONE}\label{sf:1}}
\hfill
\subbottom[Subfigure 2]{\fbox{SUBFIGURE TWO}\label{sf:2}}
\caption{Figure with two subfigures} \label{fig:twosubfig}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
@GonzaloMedina Oh, yes. Sorry, I pasted it into my other document. (Cheating). To use subfigures you need to define a subfloat. Add \newsubfloat{figure} to your preamble.
@AlanMunn Yes, I am sure it is in the documentation, but it sounds odd to me to have to manually define that new type of subfloat. Perhaps I am too accustomed to the way things work in the standard classes.
@GonzaloMedina Right, I agree, it's an odd way to do things. memoir can be quite frustrating that way, which is why I only use it for big things. These are also the kinds of things that make lockstep and many others prefer KOMA, which depends much more on other packages for all this sort of stuff.
I read several times "I don't have enough rep to attach a picture". Does this mean there will come a time when I can just attach a picture to a post? How much reputation do I need for this?
@StephanLehmke Well you have more than enough rep for that. You merely need 10 rep points and I see you have almost 1000. So there is no problem with that. We want the new users to upload the image as usual but remove the leading ! character hence making it a plain link. By doing so, we can add it later via editing.
@percusse Interesting idea, but one comment I agree with: "It makes me motion sick just to watch this video. Sorry, but synchronized side-by-side feels better."
It might be cheating, but once you have done that you know at least that there is an FAQ and you might remember the topics in the future, so I won't call this cheating
@StephanLehmke AFAIK badges are permanent, even though something might be reversed
You could always delete your account and start from a clean one ;-)
@PatrickGundlach I had the same feeling when watching the video. :) I do believe there is merit in that preview technique, but for me it doesn't make sense to use it with LaTeX or other code that's not preview-driven.
Wow, @David's quote is ranked 1st with 8 votes! :)
I was once looking for a very specific mathematics book. I searched almost all places I could, but it was in vain. Then I found a scanned version available on those sharing programs - it was around 100mb, with a 0.2kb/s. I waited, waited and waited. When the book was finally dowloaded, I opened. It was a Japanese translation. :P
The following minimal example omits the Croatian accented z/c from the author name in the compiled PDF.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,firstinits,uniquename=init,natbib=true,backend=biber,indexing=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresour...
I want to create a Feynman diagram, with the feynmf package.
While compiling, no error occurs, but no diagram is produced.
I have searched through the net, and I found that I have to create an mf file.
The code I am using is
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{feynmf}
\begin{docume...
@PauloCereda That's even a bigger problem, as it requires the -shell-escape option and Thanos doesn't seem very acquainted with using non standard things
@egreg Ah. :) I have another idea. A semi-automatic solution is to create a batch file with the proper mf call and tell the OP to drag the .mf file to it.
@PauloCereda Actually I have to hand in my masters in \approx\ 2 weeks so if you feel like it just go ahead (but if you dont, I will probably do it, as i love scripting and think that windoze people should be way more into it!!!!)
I'm wandering if there exists a package, that would take so-called Internet-Style Quoted plain text of an email, and format it accordingly for a PDF output. Internet-style quoting is discussed on the Wikipedia page Posting style; so let's say I take an example from there, and I have the following...
@percusse Yeah I guess if the OP wanted vertical lines to delineate the separate threads but that would require editing the email text. But in this case since he wants to simply incorporate an existing email then listings is probably the way to go.
@PeterGrill I see. But Ithought that you can already eat the > characters as with the current answer. But I didn't know how to get the last of them to put the ening tikzmark
@percusse For that I would just keep track of the current nesting depth. When the nesting depth increased I would add a start marker, and when the nesting depth decreased add the end marker. Of course separate start/end markers would be needed for each depth.
@PauloCereda Sorry, but I won't be able to participate; I'm going to the train in a few minutes and then go out when I'm at home: Bach's "Johannes Passion" will be performed tonight.
The following minimal example omits the Croatian accented z/c from the author name in the compiled PDF.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,firstinits,uniquename=init,natbib=true,backend=biber,indexing=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresour...
@AlanMunn I was quite confused as to why I did not see the comment about why he can't post an image when editing - so now it makes sense... How embarrassing we posted in the wrong room!! Since you were first, you can edit it..
@PeterGrill Yes, I just realised that and deleted the comment there. I'm assuming that @PauloCereda won't add it to the interview :) I've deleted my extra image. (It's not a problem, usually the system catches multiple edits like that.)
Yeah I have encountered that in the past. Quite annoying when you take time to fix something and then when you are done you can't save your edits as someone else already fixed it. Would be nice to know an edit was in progress...
Is there a simple explanation for why the latex / pdflatex compiler is funky in the following two ways:
1) N multiple compiles are necessary until you reach a "steady state" version. N seems to grow up to around 5 or 6 if I use many packages and references.
2) Error messages are almost always ...
"A couple of times I've used the features provided by xparse and I really like the increased functionality and ease of use. However, I still haven't ventured with the new syntax; I once took I quick look to the code of egreg's kantlipsum and found myself lost, although the general idea was understandable."
More generally: anyone who wants author/editor to the blog, just post a message here for me, Stefan Kottwitz or Martin Scharrer and we can add you to the user list
@JosephWright THanks. Except I'm now discovering that it doesn't work like google docs, so I just got a message that my edits will override locksteps if I save them. Hmm. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all. What should I do with my edits?
@lockstep Ok. So I'll have a quick run through the whole thing again to see if there's anything I missed. Thanks. Please, then, no one else edit it right now. :(
@PauloCereda Ok. I'm done. @PauloCereda has to decide whether to use British or American spellings for his questions: ;-) one 'favorite' and one 'honour', so I went with 'honor'.
@Alan: there is a legend here about a soccer club president who bought a player for sixty million <old currency>. He wasn't sure on how to write "60" - sessenta with one S, SS or C - so he made two 30 million cheques. :P
I'm new to LaTeX and trying to write a command to plot files using the gnuplottex package (and gnuplot).
For now I am doing this (and it works):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gnuplottex}
\begin{document}
\begin{gnuplot}[terminal=pdf,scale=1]
plot 'testfile' using 1:2
\end{gnuplot}
\e...
@JosephWright ah yes! "import and understand the common graphics file formats natively(!), like SVG, EMF, JPEG, PNG, maybe even some proprietary binary formats like CorelDraw or Visio."
Recently the following was implemented New Feature: real time updates to questions, answers, and inbox. With this feature the amount of questions with new activity is shown in parenthesis at the beginning of the page title, e.g. "(2) Meta Stack Overflow" means that MSO has two questions with new ...
I think you are making the wrong comparison; true, C++ has macros and all that, but there is one important distinction: TeX is an interpreted language that treats its programs as data and allows self-manipulation. Given that the meaning of any code fragment can never be analyzed on its own but on...
@PatrickGundlach Same here. As I said earlier, you get the impression the author has taken assumed that since things like LaTeX: A Document Preparation System have not changed then (La)TeX has not changed.
On the other hand, Ant gets a mention, and I suspect not so many people have even heard of it!
@egreg Might be a non-linear trendline in some cases. I'm willing to work with any program that lets me enter the data as some form of ASCII (X, Y, Xerror, Yerror) say then add a trendline.
@JosephWright My thesis is due next Thursday, and I haven't written most of it yet; how much time to learn would that take?
@PauloCereda I've already said that I had something too important. A very intense experience: Bach's Passions are not only music masterpieces, one can feel his great faith during the whole performance.
@PauloCereda It isn't that hard: pastebin.com/TUWh02xz Just ignore the massive amounts of whitespace in my data, pdfplots does ---I was pasting from Excel you see, so it adds a tab between each symbol.
The following minimal example omits the Croatian accented z/c from the author name in the compiled PDF.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,firstinits,uniquename=init,natbib=true,backend=biber,indexing=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresour...
I want to create a Feynman diagram, with the feynmf package.
While compiling, no error occurs, but no diagram is produced.
I have searched through the net, and I found that I have to create an mf file.
The code I am using is
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{feynmf}
\begin{docume...
Is there a simple explanation for why the latex / pdflatex compiler is funky in the following two ways:
1) N multiple compiles are necessary until you reach a "steady state" version. N seems to grow up to around 5 or 6 if I use many packages and references.
2) Error messages are almost always ...
